RAMALLAH, Israeli forces Thursday overnight detained 10 Palestinians, including an injured teen, from various parts of the occupied West Bank, according to local and security sources.
They said that Israeli forces rounded up a Palestinian and ransacked his family house in Nilin town, west of Ramallah.
In Nablus district, Israeli forces showed up at a house in Burqa town, northwest of Nablus, muscled inside, conducted a thorough search and eventually rounded up another.
In the northern West Bank, a convoy of army vehicles stormed Qalqiliya city, rounded up three others, including two brothers, and searched the houses of their families, turning them upside down.
In the southern West Bank, the gun-toting soldiers detained an 18-year-old teen from Aida refugee camp.
The teen is still recuperating from an injury after being shot in the thigh by by Israeli army gunfire in the course of confrontations some two weeks ago.
The heavily-armed soldiers detained three brothers after breaking into their family house in Kuseise village, west of Hebron.
The sources confirmed that the soldiers rounded up another after stopping and inspecting his vehicle in the southern part of Hebron city.
On Wednesday evening, police detained two others from as-Sa?diyya neighborhood in the Mulsim quarter of Jerusalem’s Old City.
Israeli forces frequently raid Palestinian houses almost on a daily basis across the West Bank on the pretext of searching for “wanted” Palestinians, triggering clashes with residents.
These raids, which take place also in areas under the full control of the Palestinian Authority, are conducted with no need for a search warrant, whenever and wherever the military chooses in keeping with its sweeping arbitrary powers.
Under Israeli military law army commanders have full executive, legislative and judicial authority over 3 million Palestinians living in the West Bank. Palestinians have no say in how this authority is exercised.
According to the latest figures from Addameer, the Palestinian Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, there are currently 4,700 Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli prisons and detention centers, including 190 children and 30 female prisoners.
This number includes approximately 800 Palestinians placed under “administrative detention”, that allows the detention of Palestinians without charge or trial for renewable intervals ranging between three and six months based on undisclosed evidence that even a detainee’s lawyer is barred from viewing.
Mass arrest of Palestinians is nothing new. According to a 2017 report by Addameer, over the past 50 years, more than 800,000 Palestinians have been imprisoned or detained by Israel, this figure is now believed to be closer to 1 million. This means that about 40% of Palestinian men and boys living under military occupation have been deprived of their freedom. Almost every Palestinian family has suffered the imprisonment of a loved one.
Source: Palestine News & Info Agency